--- title: You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon. Who acts: You, we, he. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Story the First. Which describes a loo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/) / 1 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 1 You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon. **Who acts:** You, we, he · **What happens:** attend, get, know, hobgoblin, be · **To what, where:** more, one This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:170:1 # text = You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 commencement commencement NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 25 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hobgoblin hobgoblin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attend** | must | You | | | | | to the commencement of this story | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to commencement=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **know** | shall | we | more | | | to the end | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 4 | **hobgoblin** | present · do-support | we | | | | now | about *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | he | one | | | | of the worst and a real demon | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | he | | | | | for a real demon | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [The Snow Man, 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/118/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/2/) - ↑ back to [Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/)